Low Dutch

English Alternative forms en Low-Dutch Proper noun en archaic Low German. I 30 There were ſeveral of his Prieſts and Lawyers preſent, (as I conjectured by their habits) who were commanded to addreſs themſelves to me, and I ſpoke to them in as many Languages as I had the leaſt ſmattering of, which were High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spaniſh, Italian, and Lingua Franca; but all to no purpoſe. 1815, in: The British Review, and London Critical Journal. Vol. VI, London, p. 476ff., here p. 510: The German is again sub-divided into South German or Gothic, Middle German, and Low German, or Low Dutch. [...] The Low Dutch is spoken by the people of Lower Saxony, Friesland, Holland, and Belgium. en 1877 Ella S. Armitage The Childhood of the English Nation or the Beginnings of English History London Longmans, Green, and Co. 8f. The Teutonic family is divided into three great branches: the High-Dutch, the Low-Dutch, and the Scandinavian; [...] To the Low-Dutch, who dwelt mostly in the low countries near the mouths of the rivers flowing into the German Ocean, belong many of the North Germans, the Frisians, Hollanders, and our own English forefathers. [...] From the mouth of the Rhine to the mouth of the Oder the whole coast was inhabited by Low-Dutch folk, Saxons, and Frisians, who all contributed to the hosts which set out to win the fair lands of Britain. en 1879 Edward A. Freeman The Origin of the English Nation Harper's Half-Hour Series New York Harper & Brothers, Publishers 42 At Hamburg, too, High-Dutch is the fashionable language; but I know that, a generation back, people of the highest position and education spoke Low-Dutch in their own houses, though of course they could also speak High-Dutch when it was wanted. en 1991 Sarah Grey Thomason; Terrence Kaufman Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics University of California Press Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford 321 Low Dutch means both Low Frankish (or Netherlandish) and Low Saxon (or “Low German”). Synonyms en Low German, en Netherdutch Antonyms en High Dutch (High-Dutch) Meronyms en Low Franconian, en Low Frankish en Low Saxon Adjective en adjective en archaic Low German. en 1876 (new. ed.; 1st ed. 1872) Edward A. Freeman Freeman's Historical Course for Schools: General Sketch of History. Adapted for American Students new New York Henry Holt and Company 162 It was only towards the East, where Germany bordered on the Slavonic nations, that the Empire had much chance of extending itself. The Wends, the Slavonic people along the south coast of the Baltic, in Mecklenburg and Pomerania and the other lands beyond the Elbe, gradually became Christians and were joined on to Germany, and the Low-Dutch language gradually displaced the Slavonic. en 1877 Ella S. Armitage The Childhood of the English Nation or the Beginnings of English History London Longmans, Green, and Co. 8f. The Teutonic family is divided into three great branches: the High-Dutch, the Low-Dutch, and the Scandinavian; [...] To the Low-Dutch, who dwelt mostly in the low countries near the mouths of the rivers flowing into the German Ocean, belong many of the North Germans, the Frisians, Hollanders, and our own English forefathers. [...] From the mouth of the Rhine to the mouth of the Oder the whole coast was inhabited by Low-Dutch folk, Saxons, and Frisians, who all contributed to the hosts which set out to win the fair lands of Britain. Translations German: de niederdeutsch Polish: pl dolnoniemiecki References 334623 n. and adj. 1